I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.